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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Defined Servers
Sent to me through a Vertica/Big Data connection. I don't typically talk about standard software. Don't claim to understand it completely, but the integrationHP...
From Schneier on Security
Measuring Entropy and its Applications to Encryption
There have been a bunch of articles about an information theory paper with vaguely sensational headlines like "Encryption is less secure than we thought" and "Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Better Decisons
Interesting piece from Bain & Company: Steps to better decisions. The technical and social aspects of the decision process have been a long time interest. We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Glass for First Response
A few years ago I worked with a group that was building real time communications Apps for firefighters. So this App could be used with police and firefighters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and My Blog Takes a Hit
Google was down yesterday. About four hours I read somewhere. I track the hits that this blog gets. It uses a Google product Blogspot and is tracked through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking Google+ Seriously
Another in a series of Computerworld articles that describes why and how you should take Google+ seriously. Yes I know, another case of dependence on Google. Worth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blueprints for Brainlike Computing
In MIT's Tech Review. With links to more details. Computing more like we do, the article says. More like is the key. I remember there was much ado about how...
From Schneier on Security
Teens and Privacy
Not much surprising in this new survey. Many teens ages 12-17 report that they usually figure out how to manage content sharing and privacy settings on their own...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting the Future in Big Pharma
Former colleague Lou Killeffer interviews ... Ken Savin ... Director, Process Chemistry & Special Projects at Eli Lilly & Company and the first At Lilly, Ken has...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Tammy Andrew
Tammy Andrew and I met a bunch of years ago when we both taught summer school at a famous New England boarding school. We were teaching C++ back then. While I’m...
From Putting People First
Does big data have us ‘fooled by randomness’?
Being surrounded by data makes it easy to see the noise rather than the signal, and the trees rather than the forest, writes Andre Mouton in USA Today. “Nassim...
From Putting People First
IBM on user experience design
IBM believes that all users have the right to an enjoyable experience when using a computer. They have therefore decided to share the knowledge they have acquired...
From Putting People First
eBook: Rethinking UX
Rethinking UX Formats: PDF, EPUB, Kindle (DRM-free) Pages: 62 Language: English Released: August 2013 Publisher: Smashing Magazine GmbH Abstract In “Rethinking...
From Putting People First
Exploring customer centricity in financial inclusion
CGAP (a World Bank affiliated but independent policy and research center dedicated to advancing financial access for the world’s poor) has partnered with Janalakshmi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science and Search
In Ars Technica: How media influences how science is perceived. In the past it was about how science was influenced by the popular press. Now the ubiquity of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Device Marketing
In Mobile Marketer: Not unexpected. " ... Cross-device advertising commands growing portion of media spend: report ... Interest in cross-device campaigns...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Disengaged Employees
In the HBR blogs. (Some registration required)New data on employee engagement is in, and it's downright discouraging. As this post by HBR's Gretchen Gavett noted...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Get ‘Schooled’ on Science Policy at LiSPI 2013
The following is an article published in the August 2013 edition of Computing Research News. Computing Researchers Get ‘Schooled’ on Science Policy at LiSPI 2013...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Don't Panic
The cover of the famous fictional "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" reads, in big letters, "Don't panic." There isn't a definitive "teacher's guide to teaching...
From Computational Complexity